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STORYTIME @ HOME
Youth Services staff has created special resources to help facilitate a fun storytime experience in your home. We’ve outlined early literacy activities to help keep kids reading, singing, playing, writing, and talking every day.
1) My Colors
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Learn 10 color words in English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin as you meet some brightly dressed, adorably illustrated animal friends! Learning world languages promotes cross-cultural awareness, and discovering new words with your child is fun and empowering! Phonetic pronunciation guides are included.
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Listen to the story! Read the story! Sing the Story! "I Like Colors," includes the Read-along version of the story followed by the same story sung in an adorable song. What colors do you like? This bright and colorful photographic book will teach young readers about all of the different colors through catchy rhymes. Each color is shown with a photograph to help children associate colors to things they see in real life, like a green frog and green...
3) Brown
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Introduces some common objects that are brown in color including grocery bags, footballs, and teddy bears.
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Lee la historia. ¡Luego canta la historia! ¿Qué colores te gustan? Este libro con fotografías brillantes y coloridas enseñará a los jóvenes lectores acerca de todos los diferentes colores a través de rimas pegadizas. Cada color se muestra con una fotografía para ayudar a los niños a asociar los colores con lo que ven en la vida real, como una rana verde y hojas verdes. "Un pato amarillo. Una cuchara amarilla. Una taza amarilla. Un globo...
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Octavia the octopus can shoot every color of ink cloud except the usual purple one. She practices knowing that she needs the purple one to camouflage from predators. Will she be able to shoot her purple cloud when it counts? Includes activities: for creative minds; camouflage and protection; octopus fun facts; octopus ink cloud craft
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***Peekaboo, Peekaboo, What Do You See?***is an interactive fun introduction to animals, animals sounds, colors and learning details for preschoolers, toddlers and kindergarteners, ages 1-6. Children also learn the concept of happiness.
It includes a printable activity sheet for children to identify and color the pictures. Children will answer the question of how many animals there are in all. (PDF 8.5"x11", 300dpi, Printable.)
9) Blue Animals
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Why so blue? Some critters, like male agamas, show off bright blue colors to attract partners. Blue morpho butterflies warn predators with flashy wings. Blue dragons camouflage with the ocean below. Students get the inside scoop on blue animals in this engaging book!
10) Green Animals
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Leaf insects blend in to hide from predators. Emerald green boas stealthily await prey in the trees. Male quetzals impress females with their vibrant feathers! In this title, beginning readers get a fascinating introduction to green animal adaptations.
11) Yellow Animals
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The yellow boxfish is an adorable, friendly-looking ocean dweller – but its vivid color is a warning! Journey through the world of yellow animals, from flashy goldfinches to cheetahs slinking through the grass. Young readers will love this brightly colored book.
12) Red Animals
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Red means stop! Sometimes. Ladybugs are red to scare away predators, but cardinals turn red from the berries they eat. Pygmy seahorses blend in with red coral around them to hide. Curious readers will love this informative title about red animals!
13) White Animals
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A beluga whale swims among the icebergs. It's hard for predators to spot in this snowy environment! From polar bears to albino animals, beginning readers will learn all about white creatures in our world.
14) Orange animals
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces orange animals to young readers through leveled text and related photos"
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Award Winning Book Series
Mia is green - her house is green, her clothes are green ...her entire world is green.
Just imagine how shocked and bewildered she was to see all the different kids on her first day at school.
Join Mia in this inspiring tale about compassion, acceptance (of others and ourselves) and understanding we are all unique and different - that's what makes our life and world amazingly colorful!
Rated by parents, teachers, psychologists...
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How do colors make you feel? This delightfully fun children's book dives into the colors of the rainbow, introducing young children to not only colors but the emotions, and the feelings of color.
Little ones learn to relate to the beauty and uniqueness of colors and how colors can define how they feel.
"Yellow is a bright color! It is the color of the big, beautiful sun! Bananas, lemons, sunflowers, and bees are yellow. It may make you feel warm...
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From the treasured author of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes an I Can Read adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.
Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall, so he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices he has gotten very small-half the size of a daisy! Only a very clever artist could find his way home now.
This Level 1 I Can Read imagination-sparking adventure...
18) Red Food Fun
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Text and photographs describe common foods that are the color red. Includes a recipe.
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